Pensamiento visual contemporáneo

El tiempo, el viento, la lluvia, el sol... La turba como metáfora de un calor que emana de la tierra. Todo conforma el alma de de un occidente que se antoja lejano pero muy conocido. Conocido en su espíritu, en su música, en su gente. Irlanda

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

Tengo en las manos las pruebas del libro de Aarón Sánchez, “Así lo vi”. Observo las fotografías del México y el mundo de los últimos 50 años y encuentro y reencuentro rostros, paisajes y acontecimientos en los cuales compartí el trabajo con este infatigable reportero gráfico cuya inabarcable obra apenas queda insinuada en esta selección la cual, como todas, resulta incompleta.

Everyone puts their silver granite. Arabesques drawings -- The indiscreet eye of the cartoonist -- Photochemical precursors -- A small push -- From scientist to merchant -- First lights: Nicephorus Niepce -- The daguerreotype -- Latin American experiments -- Talbotype or calotype -- Wet collodion -- Comic Photography -- The Dry Plate -- Photographic Industries -- Industrial Visionary -- New concepts in the profession -- Not everything was lost with the world wars -- Mexican Light and shadow. First lights -- Finisecular moments -- In search of images -- Finding ways -- Contemporary nuances --...